Empire Rising(제국의 부상) (feat. Reason8)

They drew the map with borders in red ink

Pockets empty but the banks obese—what's the linkage?

Schools on lockdown futures stuck in shrink-wrap

While the suits sip champagne blame the "hood's relapse"

Broke chains but the scars still bleed at night

Same script different century—ain't that right?

Blue lights flash another hashtag in the feed

Mama's tears water concrete where hope's a seed

We rise through the fire our spirits won't tire

Hands to the sky lift the weight higher

They built walls but we climb the pyre

In the heart of the struggle we find our empire

Minimum wage maximum rage—check the math

Work two jobs still can't dodge the landlord's wrath

They gentrify blocks swap soul for Starbucks logs

Call it "progress" while erasing our catalog

Prisons balloon where the textbooks lacked

A cell or a grave—which one's the trap?

They say "Pull yourself up" but the ladder's on fire

Yet we march fists raised 'til the system retires

We rise through the fire our spirits won't tire

Hands to the sky lift the weight higher

They built walls but we climb the pyre

In the heart of the struggle we find our empire

Scars are tattoos of the fight

Every scream carved in the night becomes a hymn

The road's long but we walk by ancestral light

From the cracks in the pavement—watch the gardens begin

They own the courts but the streets keep the score

Every breath we take's a rebellion to the core

Dreams ain't deferred when we rewrite the script

Turn the gavel's echo to a drumbeat—we equipped

Class wars camouflaged as "meritocracy"

But we see the strings—cut the puppetry

Build a new world where the margins are prime

'Cause the people's sweat's the true GDP every time

Empire rising—brick by brick

From the ashes the oppressed pick up the sticks

The dawn's raw but the horizon's in view

When they ask "How?" Tell 'em "We the glue"